Re: [PATCH] Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 9000 Mobility (r250 lf) issue

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 03:06, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Antoine REVERSAT wrote:
> 
> > I just compiled dri from the CVS for my radeon 9000 Mobbility card (r250 lf) and it wont work as good as it is expected to (I.E : 30 fps in Quake3) The thing is when i do a glxinfo it is reported as a r200 chip which it isn't... So i'd like to know if you are aware of this and what solutions do i have. I also wanted to know if support should be better or if this is normal.
> > For information i'm running Gentoo linux 1.4_RC4 with 2.4.21-ac3 patched kernel (patched for the mmu_cr4 problem) I'm running Xfree 4.3.0.
> > If you need more informations let me know.
> 
> Here's a patch that should clear some of that up, at least for the 
> R200-family of chips.  I did change the code to include xf86PciInfo.h. 
> In spite of the comment there, it doesn't seem to produce any errors. 
> Is this a safe change to make?  Also, do we really need to check the 
> device ID against R100-family IDs in the R200 driver?

Apparently, people do try to use the wrong drivers on the Mesa embedded
and whatnot branches...

Is this change really needed or even useful? I suspect this will only
serve to produce more 'my chip isn't properly detected!' reports when it
doesn't make any difference for the driver operation.


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